WHEELING, ILLINOIS --(ECWd) - On October 16th, the Village of Wheeling and its attorney, James V. Ferolo of the law firm Klein Thorpe Jenkins ("KTJ"), were confronted with a rundown of what we believe are their recent spree of Open Meetings Act (OMA) violations. The Village...
Maine Township (ECWd) - All indications are pointing to Maine Township's inability to follow the law as it relates to General Assistance, Freedom of Information, and our State Constitution (more on that in a future article). General Assistance is one of the few welfare programs we have...
Cook Co. (ECWd) - WARNING: Content found in these legal documents contain pornographic descriptions and search terms As if sexual harassment in the workplace is not bad enough, we now find that everything from attempts to scrub hard drives, to hiding computers has taken place in their...
Cook Co. (ECWd) - Over the years we have learned one of the fastest ways to identify if an elected official has any clue of what their job is, was to simply read the law they are bound by and then look for items in the...
Cook Co. (ECWd) - After what appears to be an abuse of General Assistance funds by the Main Township Supervisor Laura Morask, we asked for some more records that should be at her fingertips. The law mandates certain things when it comes to General Assistance, and the...
WHEELING, ILLINOIS - (ECWd) - Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan's Public Access Office (PAC) informed the Village of Wheeling on Friday, October 13th that an inquiry has been opened and "further action is warranted" by the PAC office concerning what we believe were egregious violations of...
WHEELING, ILLINOIS -- (ECWd) In recent months, the Village of Wheeling and its attorney James V. Ferolo (of the notorious law firm Klein Thorpe Jenkins) have embarrassed themselves by insisting that they can restrict the content of public comment during open public meetings and interrupt speakers...
Des Plaines, IL. (ECWd) - Des Plaines School District No. 62, who has a history of filing false police reports, and using police and prosecutors to attack a citizen for exercising her right to petition her local government (read about it here), has been found by...
Cook Co. (ECWd) - Often, we find that legal opinions only address the questions raised by a person, which on the surface, should be the way it works. However, in the case of a public body, the public body should have input on those questions and...
Cook Co. (ECWd) - What comes first, the chicken or the egg. In the case of legal opinions, it appears Maine Township Attorney Dowd preferred to simply bill for his services by endorsing the opinion of another attorney, who we presume never raised chickens. The primary issue...
